We have developed and evaluated an intervention to provide women with the knowledge, confidence, motivation and skills to present promptly with breast cancer symptoms (the Promoting Early Presentation Intervention; Forbes et al, 2011), which is currently being piloted within the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
We used the researchers' skills to present the results of ongoing research and to provide interim analysis of the pilot study findings.
The health professionals delivering the OAKP will be required to have the knowledge and skills to present information on disease specific topics, exercise advice, and to accurately respond to complex questions.
These editors perceived a need to provide intensive support to authors because they recognized that researchers often had valuable hypotheses and data but lacked the skills to present them.
Continued follow-up is important because a woman needs to retain the knowledge, confidence, motivation and skills to present promptly; it may be many years before she develops a breast symptom that may be due to breast cancer.
It is designed to provide older women with information about the symptoms and risk of developing breast cancer, and the motivation, confidence and skills to present promptly on discovering a breast change [ 4, 5].
They felt that a JC leader should have knowledge of basic statistics and research and the skills to present the paper under discussion so as to appropriately and efficiently direct and assist the group achieve its goals.
We have developed an intervention to equip older women with breast cancer awareness (Burgess et al, 2008), in other words, the knowledge, confidence, motivation and skills to present promptly to primary care on discovering breast cancer symptoms, and thereby improve survival.
Health care professionals, including nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, who deliver this program must have a minimum level of musculoskeletal education to ensure that they have the necessary knowledge and skills to present information about OA of the knee and respond accurately to complex questions.
